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| Heaven and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg |
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The Swedenborg Foundation has done handsomely by its eponymous visionary with this first volume in a new 25 part set of translations for his of his work. They have begun with a fine new translation of Emmanuel Swedenborg's most famous work, a description of the many heavens and hells that make up the great 18th-century thinker's cosmology, at once perfectly logical and perfectly eccentric. Swedenborg's afterworld is a kind of reflection and amplification of our own, and his vision of moving and active collective of heavens, occupied by the very real blessed dead, has been a tremendous influence on Goethe, Emerson, and Jorge Luis Borges, among many others. Dole's translation has the clarity and simplicity of Swedenborg's Latin, and the notes and supplementary material are wonderfully balanced and informative. Highly recommended.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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| De Hemelsche Leer 3 Volume Set (First thru Seventh Fascicles) |
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De Hemelsche Leer was a monthly magazine published by the Dutch Society of the General Church from 1930 through 1938.
The translation of the Dutch magazine into English was made possible through the generosity of the Reverend Theodore Pitcairn.
Leading Theses Propounded In “De Hemelsche Leer”
1. The Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg are the Third Testament of the Word of the Lord. The DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CONCERNING THE SACRED SCRIPTURE must be applied to the three Testaments alike.
2. The Latin Word without Doctrine is as a candlestick without light, and those who read the Latin Word without Doctrine, or who do not acquire for themselves a Doctrine from the Latin Word, are in darkness as to all truth (cf. S. S. 50-61).
3. The genuine Doctrine of the Church is spiritual out of celestial origin, but not out of rational origin. The Lord is that Doctrine itself (cf. A. C. 2496, 2497, 2510, 2516, 2533, 2859; A. E. 19).
NOTE: This 3 volume set is availabe in Paperback or Hardback.
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| My Lord and My God by Rev. Theodore Pitcairn |
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This thoughtful, provocative work is answer and refutation to the current theological storm arising from the proclamation "God is dead." The author, retired pastor of The Lord's New Church (Swedenborgian), goes much further than merely denying the validitv of the God-is-dead revolution. He explains its causes, exposes its fallacy and - more important - with great clarity and logic presents a fresh approach to grasping the relation of God to man and of man to God, a theology particularly applicable to present day needs.
Rev. Theodore Pitcairn, basing his observations and insights on the inspired teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, appeals to the intellect rather than the emotions. Readers desiring superficial palliatives or a restatement of traditional beliefs must look elsewhere. Here they will find a new, imaginative analysis of the spiritual problems facing mankind today and the solution of those problems found only in the eternal Word of God.
With a Pictorial Essay on The Lord's New Church by Richard Yardumian
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| The Essential Swedenborg by Sig Synnestvedt |
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The Essential Swedenborg summarizes in modern terms the basic features of the theology propounded by Emanuel Swedenborg, scientist, inventor, statesman, philosopher, and theologian. The startling concepts of the "Northern Plato" caused the orthodox clergy of his day to consider him a heretic. For over 200 years, however, Swedenborg's works have appealed to many of the world's greatest intellects and contributors to modern culture--Balzac, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Blake, Emerson, Henry James, Sr., Czeslaw Milosz, and Helen Keller, to name a few.
The Essential Swedenborg addresses such topics as the nature and source of life, the nature of the universe, man, morality and civil affairs, revelation, the Infintie, Divine Providence, and the after-life. A concise biography of the Swedish Seer is also included.
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| Light in My Darkness by Helen Keller |
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Originally published as My Religion in 1927, it has been revised and edited by Ray Silverman.
Helen Keller, Time Magazine’s woman of the century, reveals her mystical side in this best-selling spiritual autobiography. Writing that her first reading of Emanuel Swedenborg at age fourteen gave her truths that were “to my faculties what light, color and music are to the eye and ear,” she explains how Swedenborg’s works sustained her throughout her life.
This new edition includes a foreword by Dorothy Herrmann, author of the acclaimed Helen Keller: A Life, and a new chapter, “Epilogue: My Luminous Universe.”
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